Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-06
ON WALL STREET.
: stock Market was Dull Yesterday,
~ T-o,ssctions Being Confined to
seveu or Eight Leading Shares.
,-,,ol Ftgnres a Shade Better than the
Lowest of the Das-Ah Eyes FIXED
on Western Union.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

social 10 the casetts.
Wv Nv YoRE, Oct. 5.-Rai!way bonds
s,7 closed IS follows: Fort
- and Denver City at 93; Texas
"a poetic incomes at Il; Rios at Gag;
~.ns.s end Texas 90 st 793; Gulf,
n.-oredo and Santa Fe rs ct 122; Mis-
/ .or~i Kansas sud Texas ,G'5 81 81.
covernments slightly higher.
Money 4a5t per cent.
Sterling strong.
T5i' fairly active and frmer.
on closed 81 6si.
coffee weak.
sugar unchanged.
T5s outlook in the locsl wool market is
more cheerful.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
WV YORK, Oct The stock market
-ss duli aycep: for seven Or eight stocks
rSich moDoDolzed the greater part of
dealings arc The entire interest in specu-
I..Ion There vas d feverish market in
40 forenoon when nn advance was
1rought about by the purchases OF Lon
don and The shorts, but the bears resisted
the rise, and lajer N the Gay,
ctr it Hss known that there had
5aao nothing done at She meeting
II iae directors Of the Western Union
t7ere wss an effort 10 realize which de-
n-e=sed prices 20 the lowest figures
r,sc5ed. The operations o{ the Day show
,-e market he's little stock for sale at
-uing prices and &dvsnCes easily on light
purchases. The Leading stocks were all
intqaaced by different causes, ana West
err Union Was foremost in interest in
Wall street No doubt exists that the
terms 81 the deal between the latter and
me Baltimore and Olio have been agreed
mon snd that it will be
c5psummsred at the annual meeting Of
Western UniCn stockholders on the 18Th
inst. ST. Paul WAS the object Of contest
between the shorts and bears and was
very feverish. Reading sEd other coalers
were prominent N the decline, but the
weakest ground was Northern Pacific on
the rumoIs Gf G rupture with Union Pa
cifc and trouble over the Oregon
lines The opening was generally
strong at en- advance over
Yesterdays fuai figures of from
lad per cent. The opening prices were
me highest made ara the dealings were
marked by great feverishness with the
coal stocks very weak Northern Pacific
passed them while Western Union was
remarkably well held until Letter in the
dsy. The market became dull after noon,
the only feature being q weak spell OF
selling of Western Union. A slight rslly
was brought about in the last hour and
the final figures were shade better than
me lowest.
The close was duh and steady. The
closing prices are irregular but declines
are in the majority and n !rthern Pacific
preferred lost ,, Oregon Transconti-
tental ] /, Delswsre and Hudson Il, and
Kansas aad Texas i per cent. Mr.. Gould
snnOunCes that after connection with
Fort Worth and Denver the Missouri
Pacific will build no more new lines.
R1ilroad bonds were very dull. The
closing prices are generally lower.
THE b. x o. DEAL.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-A Wall street Cir
cular says: The street this afternoon i;
flooded with talk about the Baltimore SnC
OHIO Telegraph sale. a member OF the
executive committee of the Weste L
Union is given as authority tor the state
ment that sll preliminaries for the trans
tsr Of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
were arranged at the meeting TO.
day, and nothing remsins ex-
Cept the formal approval Of
the stockholders to Copsummate the deal
The Western Union management already
have sufficient proxies to guarantee thf
ratification Of the agreements the bulb
OF Baltimore and Ohio stockholders have
bound themselves to vote for it on theil
side. No details can be obtsined ss tt
the price, but it is understood that stool
OF the Baltimore and Oaio Telegraph
c Impany is to be exchanged for an equa
amount Western Union stock.
NO CONFIRMATION.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 The executive com
mittee of the Western Union board O
directors met to-day. After the meetin!
Russell Sage said only routine bushes
had been transacted. Mr.. Gould SAT-
nothing had been done about the purchas
OF the Baltimore and Ohio line, but de
clined to say whether or not the subjec
WAS discussed